Bedouin
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The truth behind Netanyahu’s admission that police killing was a cover-up
Apology over portrayal of Bedouin citizen as a terrorist in 2017 incident does not just expose police crimes, it deepens the deception Continue reading
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An Israeli charity group is uprooting Palestinians – not planting trees
The Jewish National Fund has won plaudits for its environmental work, but its agenda has been to evict on behalf of the state Continue reading
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Israel is bulldozing Khan Al Ahmar – and with it the two-state solution By Jonathan Cook
Israel finally built an access road to the West Bank village of Khan Al Ahmar last week, after half a century of delays. But the only vehicles allowed along it are the bulldozers scheduled to sweep away its 200 inhabitants’ homes. If one community has come to symbolise the demise of the two-state solution, it… Continue reading
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Ariel Sharon, Another War Crime Surfaces: Expulsion and Massacre of the Bedouins By Jonathan Cook
In January 1972, Ariel Sharon decided that 3,000 Bedouin were in the way of a massive military exercise he wanted to conduct in the southern Negev and northern Sinai. So he summarily expelled two tribes in the el-Arish area of the Sinai from their homes, during a deep winter spell. At least 40 people died,… Continue reading
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Bedouin Expulsion Law is Well and Drinking Tea By Roi Tov
Former Member of the Knesset Benny Begin, who was behind the law expelling the Bedouins had announced that he retired his support from it. MK Regev said that his words didn’t matter, she will continue to advance the law through the two last stages of legislation. The law had passed the first stage in June. Continue reading
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Palestine: Lessons in desert blooming By Jimmy Johnson
Palestinian Member of Knesset (MK) Hana Sweid lifted his voice against the Prawer Plan during a 9 December Knesset Interior Committee meeting. In response to Israel’s planned removal of up to forty-thousand Bedouin from their Naqab lands he protested that, “You want to transfer an entire population.” Likud MK and former IDFA spokesperson Miri Regev… Continue reading
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Shared values: Likud member says Prawer Plan akin to what ‘Americans did to the Indians’ By Alex Kane
“You want to transfer an entire population,” MK Hanna Swaid (Hadash) said. Committee chairwoman MK Miri Regev (Likud) responded, “Yes, as the Americans did to the Indians.” Continue reading
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Thousands across Palestine protest against efforts to uproot Bedouin By Alex Kane
Protests erupted across the Palestinian territories today as a show of force against the Prawer Plan, the Israeli government’s initiative to uproot tens of thousands of Bedouin Arabs, demolish their villages and build new Jewish towns on top of their ruins. Continue reading
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Palestine: International ‘Day of Rage’ against the Prawer Plan planned for 30 November By Adam Horowitz
Tomorrow (30 Nov), activists in Israel/Palestine, and around the world, will carry out a “day of rage” to protest the Prawer Plan, an Israeli government plan to destroy 35 Arab villages in the Negev desert that will lead to the forced displacement of up to 70,000 Bedouin citizens of the state of Israel in order… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine/Israel Newslinks 5 September 2013: The historical truth about Bedouin expulsion from the Negev
5 September 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterSoldiers Invade SilwanIMEMC – Dozens of Israeli soldiers invaded on Thursday evening [September 5, 2013] Wadi Hilweh in Silwan town, in occupied East Jerusalem, apparently in an attempt to kidnap some local youths. … Continue reading
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Israeli government is planning the largest single attempt at the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since the 1948 Nakba
The Begin-Prawer Plan, which is the name of the law calling for the mass relocation of the Bedouin, passed its first reading in the Israeli Knesset on Wednesday, June 23. If the law is fully passed and implemented, it will mean the destruction of up to 40 Bedouin villages. Over the ruins of these villages,… Continue reading
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VTJP Palestine-Israel Newslinks 29 July 2013: Images of Bedouin displacement foreshadow a ‘Nakba in the Negev’
29 July 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterPCHR Calls Upon Abbass To Intervene To Save Lives Of 36 Patients Suffering From “Leukemia”IMEMC – The Detainees Have Been With No Treatment For 8 Months The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is gravely concerned over the lives of 36 patients, who suffer from Leukemia in Continue reading
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Treatment of Palestinians is Apartheid by Any Other Name By Franklin Lamb
Were it not for the razor wire, giant concrete blocks, steel gates, watchtower and standard-issue surly teenage soldier, it would be impossible to tell at what point the barren uplands of Israel’s eastern Negev give way to the South Hebron Hills of the West Bank. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 3 June 2013: Bedouin forced to live beside garbage dump contract unknown diseases
3 June 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli Illegally Confiscates 370 Dunams Near NablusIMEMC – Monday June 3 2013, the Israeli government announced Monday it decision to illegally confiscate 370 Dunams (91.42 Acres) of Palestinian lands, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 28 May 2013: ACT! Stop mass eviction of Bedouins in Israel
28 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterChild Forced Under House Arrest In JerusalemIMEMC – Tuesday May 28 2013, the Wadi Hilweh Information Center in Silwan, in occupied East Jerusalem, reported that the Israeli Police released an 11-year-old child, identified as Saif Roweidi, after kidnapping and interrogating him for several hours. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 24 May 2013: “This time they destroyed everything”: Uprooted Bedouins face more evictions
24 May 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterDetainee Continues Hunger Strike, Demands ReleaseIMEMC – Palestinian detainee, Ayman Issa Hamdan, who went on hunger strike 27 days ago, rejected an Israeli “offer” for an additional six-month extension of his Administrative Detention, without trial, and demanded his unconditional release. … Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 29 April 2013: Bedouins await Israel’s forcible relocation plan
29 April 2013 — VTJP News International Middle East Media CenterAl-Eesawy Slowly Recovering Following His 9-Month Hunger StrikeIMEMC – Monday April 29 2013, Palestinian Minister of Detainees, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that Palestinian detainee, Samer Al-Eesawy was moved from the Kapalan Israeli hospital to the Al-Ramla prison clinic, adding that the detainee is slowly recovery from his Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 27 April 2013: Israeli coalition parties join forces to reduce land allocated to Bedouin
27 April 2013 — VTJP Peace, Love and Occupation? Tell Ben & Jerry’s to Stop its Complicity with the Israeli Occupation! News Ma’an News Israeli forces assault worshipers in Jerusalem, detain 44/27/2013 – RAMALLAH (Ma’an) – Israeli forces detained Friday evening four young Palestinian men following clashes near Jerusalem Old City’s Lion’s Gate, says eyewitnesses. Locals told Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 24 December 2012: Israel denies Bedouins right to elect representatives
24 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Sharawna Suspends His Hunger StrikeIMEMC – Palestinian Minister of Detainee, Issa Qaraqe’, stated that hunger striking detainee Ismail Sharawna, who started his hunger strike more than 176 days ago, and is facing serious health deterioration, decided to suspend his strike for ten days following medical advice, Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 16 December 2012: Under siege: One Bedouin family’s struggle to live in Israel
16 December 2012 — VTJP News International Middle East Media Center Soldiers Kidnap Four Youths In HebronIMEMC – Israeli soldiers invaded, on Sunday evening, the southern West Bank city of Hebron, broke into and searched dozens of homes and kidnapped four youths before taking them to an unknown destination. … Continue reading
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